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by xkjkls 5y ago
Semis are an entirely different equation than delivery vans. They have more constraints around energy density, whereas vans have more constraints around price.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
This is very different from heavy trucks. These are electric delivery vans. No one is arguing whether electric vehicles can be effective in the small vehicle market; its the semi, 18-wheeler segment being discussed.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> What are the odds batteries hit a wall before they're viable in heavy trucks? I dunno but certainly not zero. Lithium Ion battery costs have improved tremendously over the past few decades, but energy density has not improved at n
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by xkjkls 5y ago
When have hedge funders been bailed out?
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Just because we don't know exactly doesn't mean we aren't able to create good estimates. We don't know how many people die of any disease. But if you have a large enough dataset, and analyze it well, you can make good de
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> I don't know how people compare two isolated islands that are multi hour flights to any other nation to the USA with a straight face. Think of the backlash at even proposing locking the Mexico border. Very little of our COVID infe
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Someone who is 20 should be valued more than someone who is 60. Case in point, the deaths of the ~100,000 centenarians are going to be way less impactful than a disaster that wipes out the entire town of San Antonio.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
You do realize that 95% of COVID deaths have occured after April 2020, right?
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Is the point here to argue that the Spanish Flu was worse? Yes, it was. But I think someone crying, "This is the worst pandemic in 100 years", sounds like they are pretty on the money.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
I don't think one side is using infinity. The issue here is that lockdowns, if done effectively, don't have to last for a full year. Look at Australia. Look at New Zealand. They managed to lock down for substantially less than a y
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> is it obvious? My niece doesn't know that there are other humans like her, I would gladly take a year at the end of my life to give that gift to her. I'm not sure she is going to agree with you when she visits you toward the
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by xkjkls 5y ago
That's what he is attempting to imply is a massive overcounting in the data, but additional conditions that people point out as COVID deaths also having are mostly caused by COVID-19. Oh, they died of viral pneumonia after contracting
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Those other factors like pnuemonia, arrythmia, organ damage, sepsis, etc. are mostly caused by COVID-19. This is like saying that 0% of people who have contracted HIV have ever died of HIV, they died of other diseases. Well, sure, but what
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by xkjkls 5y ago
makes gambling on twitter much easier
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Is it? I mean, like I would never want to invest the time to actually learning how to decipher it. It doesn't seem worth the effort when there are audio ways to convey the information.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Can someone explain the usefulness of IPA currently? I guess I wonder what benefit there is to learning IPA at this point in time. I feel like its major usefulness was when there existed no way to communicate audio information easily, which
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Most probably they would be fundamentally different in classification from any Bacteria/Fungi on earth.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Is "life on mars", really an extraordinary claim? I guess I have a hard time seeing a solar system where Earth is so unique that biological life only happened here. I agree more proof is needed of Martian life, but what we're
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by xkjkls 5y ago
How does buying the stock help the company survive?
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Yeah, Musk is the second richest man on the planet, but somehow he's also always begging for cash. Reminds me of a former massively wealth president of ours who begged donors to fund his campaign. Two peas in a pod.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Most car companies inspire wild enthusiasm and hype. It represents a huge purchase for the majority of Americans, hence they have pretty extreme buy-in for their decisions
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Yes, but given he was confident they would hit level 5 three years ago, his confidence doesn't seem to be worth much.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Given that Elon Musk raised billions of capital on that exact claim in 2018, there obviously are.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
It sees difficult for anyone who was in the ML computer vision or self driving vehicle field to have made those predictions, which make it all the more problematic that Tesla still decided too, despite having all the information at hand.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Askren isn't that type of dude. Not to mention the massive illegality of betting against yourself in a sanctioned boxing match, it would be incredibly dishonest and against his normal personality.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Elon Musk is not a stellar husband or father. The stuff described here is as bad as anything Jobs ever did: https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-start...
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by xkjkls 5y ago
This isn't just the pandemic, the fact that Model Y sales just displaced Model 3 sales in the US should be concerning. Also, given the narrative that Tesla is a supply-limited company, the pandemic really shouldn't change their sa
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by xkjkls 5y ago
I wouldn't put much blame on him specifically, but yeah, he was enormously irresponsible with a lot of his communication during the pandemic.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Maybe, but we shouldn't defend people's behavior based on their goals. Musk has a massive habit of either stretching the truth, deceiving, outright lying -- whatever you want to call it -- that Jobs didn't. It's a very i
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Sure, but Tesla Solar generally advertises to smaller customers. If they get one big deal, its addition might overwhelm the sustainable growth in their business. They've definitely had multiple situations like that before with their en

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